The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-09
FOR THE "oLD SOUTH
Lieut-Gen. D. H. Hill Addresses the
Confederate Society,
From the Nerc York Times.

Confederate Society
From the Netc York Times.
BALTIMORE, ND, June G.--Lieut Gen. ID.
H. Hill delivered an address on the "Old
South before the Confederate Society, at
Ford's Opera House tonight The house was
crowded, and the applause was hearty and
frequent The concluding portion of the adj
dress was upon the effects of the war, and
was as follows:
] would place first of those the general diff
fusion Of love for the constitution OF the United
States Time was when the uth-hating phi
lanthropiSts denounced it as "a covenant with
death and league with hell, > gotten up by the
slave power in the interests of slavery. But in
1861 the philanthropistS experienced change
of heart and ever since have talked of the con
stitutiOn that sacred instrument" that
''bulwark of freedom" that palladium of lib
erty" etc. lam glad of their conversion sus-
piciously sudden though it was. and hope they
will never fall from grace. AS a stalwart Pres
byteran | believe in the preservation of the
saints.
The philanthropists used to tell of the cruelty
and brutality of Shareholders to their slaves, and
said that they bad reduced the negroes to the
lowest state of ignorance, barbarism and bestial-
ity But in the reconstruction period the phi
lanthropists underwent radical change of
views, and discovered that these negroes whom
they had described as more savage and degraded
than the barbarians on the Congo, were not
freemen and voters, but 10 be United States
Senators and Congressman, Foreign Ministers,
COnsulS and Marshals, Governors of States,
Judges, members of State Cabinets, etc. | am
glad that the philanthrOpists found out that the
Old South had trained its slaves carefully fof
these high and responsible duties. No other
masters in the worlds history ever gave such
training to their slaves. The thirteenth four
teenth and fifteenth amendments to the conSti-
tuition of the United States the grandeSt pos
sible eulogies to the Old South. But there
was one great error in this training. The
simple hearted. confiding Southern masters, al
ways careless of their own money, did not teach
their slaves to be cautious about their invest
ments, and tens of GouSands of these credulous
ington established by the philanthropists and
lost it all. love to hear the praises of the won
derful deeds of Mcclellan, Grant Meade and
Hancock, for If they were such great warriors
for crushing with their massive columns the
thin lines of ragged rebels, what must be said of
Lee, the two Johnstons, Beauregard and Jack
son, who held millions at bay for four years
with their fragments of shadowy armies Pile
| up huge pedestalS and SurInount them with
| bronze horses and riders in bronze. All the
| Union monuments are eloquent of the proves
of the ragged rebels and their leaders.
Suppose the tables had been turned and that
| either of the five Southerners named above had
been superior to his antagonists in all the appli-
ances and inventions OF war, and had been
| given, moreover, an excess of 100000 men
over them, how many statues think we, my
countrymen, would there be of bronze warriors
and prancing chargerss The Congressman for
the old South have voted literally for all legti-
mate pension bills for Union veterans, for they
know what tough job it was for the 1853 H.
Union soldiers, with their magnificent outfit, to
overcome the 100000 rebels, poorly fed poorly
clothed, and poorly equipped These pension
bills are splendid tributes to the pluck patience
| perseverance aud fortitude of the chivalry of
| the Old South
| 1 love TO hear the philanthropistS praise Mr..
| Lincoln and call him the second Washington
| for remember that he was born in Kentucky
and was from first to last as the atlantic
| Month'y truly said: "A Southern man in all his
characteristics" / love to hear them say that
George H. Thomas was the stoutest fighter in the
Union army, for remember that he was born
| in Virginia, When the old lady of the old South
hears the eulogieS upon these men she pushes
back her spectacles that she may have q better
view of the eulogist and says: These were my
children" Then the old lady adds: Il have
| another son born in Kentucky, and he is not q
stepson, nor did l raise him to die on a sour
apple tree